Shots fired in Stamford neighborhood

John Nickerson

Updated 8:44 pm, Monday, March 24, 2014

STAMFORD -- Police are investigating a shooting incident late Monday morning on a West Side street corner. Police said the gunman was aiming his pistol at two or three men standing on the east side of Richmond Hill Avenue near Mission Street.

Lt. Diedrich Hohn said the shots rang out at about 11:30 a.m. Police checked local hospitals, but no shooting injuries had been reported.

Hohn said investigators did not find evidence that anyone had been shot or injured, but investigators found five shell casings on Richmond Hill Avenue. Police said a garbage can and a car were struck by some of the shots. One bullet was recovered from the engine block of the car, Capt. Richard Conklin said.

Although there is a good amount of foot traffic and people around that area in the late morning, Hohn said only one person called police to report the shooting.

The incident took near the site of Stamford's last homicide a year ago. Conklin said the shots were fired about a half-block from the Cut Master barbershop, where 24-year-old Jeffrey McNeil was shot and killed last April 19.